Industry Minister Bhandari off to India to attend Partnership Summit Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Damodar Bhandari left here today for New Delhi of India to participate in the formal programme of the Partnership Summit 2024. Business 01 Dec, 2024
CDF and its latest iteration: A mockery of the SC's decision Following the approach of the FY 2081/82 federal budget, the new government of Madhesh decided in its first cabinet meeting to transform the Parliamentary Development Fund into schemes to provide funds to the MPs in the province assembly. Opinion 24 Jun, 2024
Problems of underdeveloped countries raised ​​​​​​​Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat has returned home after attending the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Banks Governors meeting held in Gujarat, India. ​​​​​​​Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat has returned home after attending the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Banks Governors meeting held in Gujarat, India. Nepal 20 Jul, 2023
PM Dahal insists on collaboration for achieving SDGs Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has underscored the need for collaboration across various sectors for securing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Kathmandu 07 Apr, 2023
Ukraine nuclear plant loses power line, Moscow makes Europe sweat over gas ​​​​​​​A nuclear power plant on the front line of the Ukraine war again lost external power, U.N. inspectors said on Saturday, fuelling fears of disaster while Moscow kept its main gas pipeline to Germany shut to hurt economies of Kyiv's friends in the West. World 04 Sep, 2022
Russia, West step up energy war as risk of nuclear disaster haunts Ukraine As UN inspectors sought to avert a nuclear disaster on Ukraine's frontline, the West and Russia wounded each other's economies, with Moscow keeping its main gas pipeline to Germany shut on Saturday while threatened with price caps on oil exports. World 03 Sep, 2022
Acquittal of the finance minister: Overshadowed by partisan politics Janardan Sharma, the immediate past finance minister, has received a new lease of life after he was found innocent by an investigation committee. Opinion 02 Aug, 2022
G-7 leaders to commit to Ukraine, US sending anti-air system The Group of Seven economic powers are set to commit themselves to supporting Ukraine in the long haul, with the U.S. preparing to announce the purchase of an advanced surface-to-air missile system for Kyiv, as leaders meet in the German Alps and confer by video link with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. World 27 Jun, 2022
EDITORIAL - Provincial budgets On Wednesday, the finance ministers of the respective provinces presented budgets totalling Rs 305.5 billion for fiscal 2022-23, with priority going to economic enhancement and increased productivity. Opinion 17 Jun, 2022
EDITORIAL: Ambitious budget Finance Minister Janardan Sharma on Sunday presented a budget of Rs 1.793 trillion for fiscal 2022/23 at the joint session of the federal parliament, focussing on the upcoming parliamentary and provincial elections to be held by November-end. Opinion 31 May, 2022
Top Putin ally says Russia will capture Mariupol on Thursday A top ally of President Vladimir Putin said Russian forces will seize the last main stronghold of resistance in the besieged city of Mariupol on Thursday, after Ukraine proposed talks on evacuating troops and civilians there. World 21 Apr, 2022
Ex-FinMins condemn suspension of NRB guv Three former finance ministers have expressed strong reservations against the suspension of the Nepal Rastra Bank governor and termed it a move of the ruling coalition ‘to cover up its own incompetence under pressure from Finance Minister Janardan Sharma’. Nepal 11 Apr, 2022
